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ASUStor Lockerstor Gen 2 NAS supports up to four NVMe SSDs

By Ken Wong - on 20 May 2022, 4:36pm

ASUStor Lockerstor Gen 2 NAS supports up to four NVMe SSDs

The new Lockerstor family. Image source: ASUStor.

ASUStor’s new Lockerstor Gen 2 family, the Lockerstor 2 Gen2, Lockerstor 4 Gen2 and the Lockerstor 6 Gen2 feature two, four and six bays respectively for both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDDs.

But what is special to the new Lockerstor series is the additional two slots for M.2 storage so all of the Lockerstor Gen2 series now come with four M.2 slots for NVMe drives.

The Lockerstor Gen2 series is equipped with Intel's all-new 10 nm Quad-Core Celeron N5105 SoC bringing speeds of up to 2.9GHz, a 31% performance upgrade over Gemini Lake.  Up to 8GB of DDR4 RAM is found inside the Lockerstor Gen2 series to complement the CPU performance.

Two 2.5-Gigabit Ethernet ports are found on the Lockerstor Gen2, providing up to 590 MB/s and 562 MB/s of read and write speeds respectively when using SMB Multichannel with a RAID 5 volume.

The all-new standard PCIe 3.0 slot on the Lockerstor 4 Gen2 and Lockerstor 6 Gen2 gives users a choice between SSDs or 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards with the use of a software switch. This means you can swap out the M.2 card with a 10-Gigabit Ethernet card to accelerate your NAS to 10GbE speeds.

 

Pricing and availability

The ASUStor Lockerstor 2 Gen2, Lockerstor 4 Gen2 and the Lockerstor 6 Gen2, are all available now in Singapore for S$789, S$1,049, and S$1,359 from AverTek Enterprises Pte Ltd. They are having a launch promotion for the ASUStor Lockerstor Gen 2 right now, where they are giving away a free ASUStor AS-U2.5G2 2.5Gbe USB network adapter, worth S$69, while stocks last. Note that this price is only for the enclosure. Drives still need to be bought separately.

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